Dear all,
Without further ado:
Last week the following items were published on idrottsforum.org (see below; language and publication dates, YYMMDD, in brackets). Click on the red headings to go to content. Utilize the Google Translate service to turn Scandinavian language pages into (some sort of) English.
Have a great week,
Kjell Eriksson
Editor
Research Article
Reversal, normalization and self-care – three logics of countering body shame through fitness activities among young Danes
This article by Carsten Stage and Stinne Bach Nielsen explores the relationship between body shame and fitness through interviews with 20 young Danes (age 15–24) who use a fitness centre at least twice a week as part of a process of self-defined bodily transformation. The analysis shows that body shame is a well-known feeling for a vast majority of the informants and that fitness is used by them to counter body shame in three ways that are analyzed in the article. (Peer review article, published in Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum in English 230327.)
Book Reviews
Justice for Trans Athletes: Challenges and Struggles, by Ali Durham Greey & Helen Jefferson Lenskyj (eds.)
Arguably, trans people are subject to discrimination, or worse. Whether or not they are also, as trans athletes, discriminated in sports is a moot point. In a new edited collection, Justice for Trans Athletes: Challenges and Struggles by Ali Durham Greey & Helen Jefferson Lenskyj (Emerald), the contributors argue for full inclusion of transwomen athletes in the female category of competitive sports. Our reviewer, legal and political philosopher Miroslav Imbrišević is a well-known exponent of the opposite view. (Review in English, published 230328.)
Sport and Secessionism, by Mariann Vaczi & Alan Bairner (eds.)
Sport and Secessionism, edited by Mariann Vaczi and Alan Bairner (Routledge), examines how sporting cultures reflect, inform and sometimes frustrate secessionist movements around the world by investigating a wide range of cases. Our reviewer is Norwegian historian Matti Goksøyr, and his insightful presentation and critical assessment of the collection reveals new takes, new examples and hence new perspectives and more nuances to the ways sport can operate and be applied in secessionist contexts. (Review in English, published 230331.)
New Issues of Scholarly Journals
(We rely heavily on journal publishers delivering on their promises of new issue alerts. Sometimes they don’t.)
Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport, Vol 33, 2023, Issue 1 | Legal Issues in College Athletics (230327)- Sport in Society, Volume 26, 2023, Issue 1 (230327)
- Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, Vol. 93, 2022, Issue 3 (230328)
- Annals of Leisure Research, Volume 26, 2023, Issue 1 (230328)
- Sport, Business and Management, Volume 13, 2023, Issue 1 (230329)
- The Sport Psychologist, Volume 37, 2023, Issue 1 (230329)
News items (calls for papers, vacancies, etc.)
- Call for Participants | Shelley Lucas & Laura Frances Chase: “Women’s Mountain Biking History and Culture” | Iowa Colloquium on Sport and Culture. Webinar on Zoom, April 7, 2023
